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Hiring Engineers

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The best companies hire the best teams. Decisions throughout the hiring process will impact every step of the lifecycle of your product and make the difference between success and failure. Hiring engineers is uniquely challenging in a competitive market when experiences vary widely and skills can be difficult to measure. Every step of the process is crucial, from bringing in the right candidates, to conducting effective interviews, and making great offers that will boost your company.
Hiring Engineers is part of our Engineering Career Leveling Framework. Explore next steps in your career from this industry-standard model.

  1. Intro to Hiring Engineers

    The hiring process can be complex and it can be difficult to know where to begin. Get started by understanding the process and pitfalls.

  2. How to Create a Candidate Profile

    To hire the right candidate, you need to identify the the skills and capacities required, and define metrics for success. These experts go into detail on their paths to success.
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      Increase your hiring success with job success profiles

      Rod Begbie, Senior Engineering Manager, Discord

      • What makes a successful hire? • Translating the answers into a Job Success Profile
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      Medium’s Engineering Interview Process

      Jamie Talbot, Director of Engineering, Medium

      Jamie reviews what Medium looks for in interviews, what they don't look for, and how they grade, including: problem-solving, code fluency, autonomy, basic computer science knowledge, system design, resoluteness, curiosity, awareness, Empathy, collaboration, and perspective.
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      How Stripe Built One of Silicon Valley’s Best Engineering Teams

      Greg Brockman, CTO, Stripe

      Greg discusses the principles of Stripe's recruiting process, including: • Measure hiring channel performance • Approach recruiting like marketing • Avoid assumptions • Distinguish the great from the good • The importance of the first hire in a role or department • Hire people instead of roles • Trust your instincts.

  3. How to Structure the Engineering Interview Process

    Keeping the interview process fair and standard across candidates is essential. Maintaining fair, consistent communication enables you to let the best candidates rise to the top.

  4. How to Interview Engineers

    Assessing technical and non-technical skills in a way that accurately predicts job performance is no small task, and many processes screen out great candidates by measuring the wrong metrics. Learn about the right way to ask questions to cut through the noise and really get to know how your candidates work.
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      How Artsy Hires Engineers

      Ash Furrow, Software Engineer, Artsy

      This is an interview with 3 engineers from Artsy, who share that Artsy deviates from standard engineer interviews. Rather than do in-person coding, whiteboard interviews, or take-homes, Arsty focuses on behavioral interviews on topics like learning and adaptation, self-learning and drive, independence and teamwork, and systems development.
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      The Anatomy of the Perfect Technical Interview from a Former Amazon VP

      Neil Roseman, VP Engineering, Amazon

      Niel offers practical tips on how to read resumes and design questions, asking technical questions first followed by product design and cultural questions, and making decisions as a hiring team.
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      Interviewing is a noisy prediction problem

      Erik Bernhardsson, CTO, Better Mortgage

      Erik discusses his approach to information gathering in interviews, including good and bad interview signals, combining measurements, staying objective, and sanity checking your interview process against your existing team.

  5. Hiring Engineering Managers

    Hiring EMs is different from hiring engineers. This section goes into how you should think differently when adding leaders to the team.
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      Hiring Engineering Managers

      James Turnbull, SVP of Engineering, Sotheby's

      In this two part blog post, James outlines how to hire an engineering manager from end-to-end. He starts with how to define the role and ends with concrete suggestions for an interview process.

  6. Making Offers to Engineers

    The best interview process can fall flat if your candidate does not accept your offers. in this competitive marketplace, getting to know your candidates' priorities and motivations enables you to make a great offer that moves your company forward.

  7. Engineer Hiring Case Studies

    Engineer hiring case studies provide valuable insights into the hiring process. By examining successful and unsuccessful hires, companies can learn from their experiences and improve their hiring processes over time.
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      How We Evolved Our Tech Interview Process at PagerDuty

      Ka Chan, Software Development Engineer, PagerDuty

      Ka provides a case study on how PagerDuty shifted attention from solving algorithm problems in interviews toward practical programming exercises, with positive results, especially for junior engineers.